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...bizarre showcase for all this lethal hardware is the 13-month-old Persian Gulf conflict. Iraq has been using Soviet MiG jets, French Mirage jets, Brazilian Urutu armored personnel carriers, and Soviet T-72 tanks to fight Iran's American F-4 jets, British Chieftain tanks and Italian-built Chinook helicopters. "The Iran-Iraq arms buildup is a classic case of internal pressures and external fears combining to produce a disaster," says a diplomat who has served in both countries...
Last week the booming money-market funds passed yet another milestone: their first reported theft. The FBI alleged that a Brazilian couple, an accounting clerk and her boyfriend, embezzled $1.55 million from the $788 million First Variable Rate Fund for Government Income in Washington by using an almost routine bank fraud scheme. Vera Lucia Campos, 27, and Andre L. Prestes, 26, who were illegal aliens according to the Government, appeared to have planned the ploy carefully...
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
...straddles the two worlds, both awkwardly and heroically. He is the idealistic primitif, yet when the show busts, he promptly follows Lord Gypsy's lead in sending out his wife as a prositute. But then again, when he sees her being picked up by a member of the new Brazilian bourgeoisie he files over to save her, screaming, "Not with him," and flailing away with great matrimonial passion. Diegues deftly speaks his mind about the mixed blessings of developments, scouring many satirical points against the iniquities and displacements it brings, but he always remains close to the land...
...unconvincingly heroic sternness and a wonderfully fatuous smile of beneficence--but he deploys them willingly. He provides a continual comic center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims...